Selected 1960s
Memoirs

Adler, Margot. Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit & Revolution.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. By a veteran of many 1960s social movements.

Ayers, William. Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2001. By a member of the Weather Underground.

Block, Diana. Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009. By an activist in the movement for Puerto Rican independence.

Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. New York: Anchor
Books, 1992. By the first female leader of the Black Panther Party.

Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. New York: Dial,
2000. By a veteran of the women's liberation movement.

Ehrhart, W.D. Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the
War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.

Hayden, Tom. Reunion:
A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1988. By one of the founders of SDS.

Horowitz, David. Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. New York: Free Press, 1997. By a 1960s leftist who had "second thoughts."

King, Mary. Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. New
York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. By an activists in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the early 1960s.